since when haven't lawyers felt entitled? On Feb 29, 11:30 pm, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > Sandra Fluke is a student at Georgetown Law. She’s also a “reproductive > rights activist” who agrees wholeheartedly with the Obama administration’s > controversial contraceptive mandate. Her reasoning, though, is likely to > enrage some critics. > > During a testimony in front of the House Democratic Steering and Policy > Committee on Monday (a meeting that was held by House Minority Leader Nancy > Pelosi), Fluke — who was coincidentally the only witness heard — described > the financial > constraints<http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/28/georgetown-co-ed-please-pay-for...>that > purchasing birth control puts on her peers. > > “Forty percent of the female students at Georgetown Law reported to us that > they struggled financially as a result of this policy,” Fluke said, > referring to the fact that the university doesn’t pay for contraception. > “Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman > over $3,000 during law school.” > > She detailed, among other stories, how one woman felt “embarrassed” and > “powerless” at the pharmacy counter when she “learned for the first time” > that contraceptives weren‘t covered by the university’s health care plan. > > CNS News’ Craig Bannister, though, > challenged<http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/sex-crazed-co-eds-going-broke...>Fluke’s > $3,000 figure and came up with some pretty interesting numbers: > > $3,000 for birth control in three years? That’s a thousand dollars a year > of sex – and, she wants us to pay for it. [...] > > At a dollar a condom if she shops at CVS pharmacy’s website, that $3,000 > would buy her 3,000 condoms – or, 1,000 a year… > > Assuming it’s not a leap year, that’s 1,000 divided by 365 – or having sex > 2.74 times a day, every day, for three straight years. And, I thought > Georgetown was a Catholic university where women might be prone to shun > casual, unmarried sex. At least its health insurance doesn’t cover > contraception (that which you subsidize, you get more of, you know). > > MoonbatOfTheWeek.SandraFluke..jpg > 16KViewDownload
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